Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 17 October 2018.
Thank you, Paul, and thank you for the invitation and the opportunity that I had to visit Ysgol y Preseli with you to hear first hand from the staff and the students at the school that participate in that scheme. Since that visit to Ysgol y Preseli, I have been very fortunate indeed to visit the PEAR Institute at Harvard University, which is the partner with Ysgol y Preseli in delivering that programme, and officials have been instructed to contact the PEAR Institute to look at how we can develop the project further, with the potential of seeing if other schools would be able to participate in that programme, and I will write to the Member with an update on that work. The impact that the programme has in Ysgol y Preseli is very interesting indeed and is clearly making a difference to pupils' levels of well-being, which in turn reflects on their academic achievements within the school. And there is certainly something, I believe, in that programme that we can learn from.